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(A user setting to leave it collapsed/disabled by default might be what some prefer, but I don't think one's available or at least not built-in?)
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My next post here was going to collect some more of my thoughts on the Leymridian language, as well as the existing ones in one place, but…then I lost my draft of it. I do plan on reconstructing what I had before at some point, naturally.
Cross-posting from the other 'Find That Story' thread which inadvertently popped up when its OP couldn't find this thread (since nobody there ever figured this out for me:)
If anybody knows what this is and where I could find it, I'd appreciate it.
A few more tidbits:
A name I'm considering for the Myrttenssvaard's patron goddess is 'Visⱬ́ħřaiya.' She's variously depicted, and occasionally seen, as either a human or, much more commonly, a single or 'mix-and-match' mammal beastkin with long hair, though her hair/eye(/fur) color isn't...
I'm half-tempted to turn the double 'a' ('aa') in 'Myrttenssvaard' into an 'å' ('a' with overring,) but I'm not entirely sure that's an edit I want to make yet. I guess I'll let the thought sit here and simmer for a bit to see if it sticks.
Some things I still have left to make posts on:
The Orion Colonial Federation, or OCF; the predominant faction in the region of human influence surrounding Earth in its plane of existence. (I…guess this could be a reference to the Orion's Arm setting…?)
Faster-than-light propulsion and...
Haggler's Rest used to be on the frontier (generally or just in terms of 'the frontier between maritime borders') but isn't quite really any more, hence it not being as crazy as it used to be.
If anyone beats me to coming up with a more concise version of my OP that 'files its serial numbers off' before I do, I might use it or something like it for this.
Threadmarks: [Informational][Worldbuilding] Artifacts: The Myrttenssvaard
The holy sword Myrttenssvaard ('Maiden's/Maidens' Sword/Ward') is a divine blade meant only to serve maidens of destiny chosen by its patron goddess during times of trouble or instability. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view,) males deemed worthy to wield it became...
Threadmarks: [Informational][Worldbuilding] Characters — (Extended/More Detailed) Physical Descriptions: Blair/Blaire, Ariastħane ri Feljeux, Unnamed Character 1, Hikaru Shirai, and Unnamed Character 2
Blair/Blaire
As both Blair and Blaire:
Age: Late teens
Homeworld: Unnamed Earth colony
As Blair:
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Hair color: Black or dark brown
Eye color: Undecided
As Blaire:
Sex: Female
Race: Fox beastkin
Beastkin traits: Ears, tail
Hair/fur color: Dark medium flame...
Ánzia
(No last or middle name yet.)
A scrappy little delinquent of a young (late pre-teen or early teenager) catgirl from Haggler's Rest who prefers stowing herself away on a certain courier/shipping/salvage/scavenger/smuggling ship over doing her schoolwork, which often bores her...
Just a small trivia tidbit to stash here for the moment: Dyresia has beastkin, at least to the extent of them being 'little-bit-beastly'/kemonomimi (whether more animalistic anthropomorphic animals exist there is something I'm still leaving up in the air for now.) (I'd do a full post on the...